Mehrdad Rabani
Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Habtamu B. Madessa
Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Natasa Nord
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp1815317Published in: Proceedings of The 59th Conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS 59), 26-28 September 2018, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 153:3, p. 17-23
Published: 2018-11-19
ISBN: 978-91-7685-494-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper dealt with simulating a typical occupied office equipped with displacement ventilation using CFD method. The STAR-CCM+ commercial software was employed for performing the simulations in order to analyze the trend of the indoor air temperature profile in the office occupied space. Understanding this trend is a key parameter to ensure that the occupants are comfortable and thereby further conclusions on energy efficiency could be extracted. The simulations were carried out for incompressible, turbulent, and constant property air flow in the steady state condition. The results showed that increasing the number of occupants, while Archimedes number was constant, would increase the throw length of the incoming cold jet leading to an overall lower temperature profile for the case with five occupants.
